Detective Branch
Bangladesh Police Detective Branch
The Detective Branch (Bengali: গোয়েন্দা শাখা, romanized: Gōẏēndā Šākhā; abbreviated as DB) is a specialized unit of the Bangladesh Police. It mostly deals with investigative activities and special operations in sensitive cases and places. The main task of the detectives of this unit is to collect the information behind the news from the grass root level for the purpose of investigating the events of any serious hidden crime or unsolved historical crime. Also, if necessary, they arrest those who are suspicious individuals.
History
On 1 July 2016, Intelligence Branch Assistant Commissioner Rabiul Karim was shot dead by terrorists in the July 2016 Dhaka attack.
According to Human Rights Watch, there is extensive documentation of human rights violations by the Detective Branch and the Rapid Action Battalion. According to Human Rights Watch, 70 percent of extrajudicial deaths involving the police involved the Detective Branch.
Controversies
In 1998, Shamim Reza Rubel, a student of Independent University, Bangladesh, was arrested by Detective Branch members. He was then tortured and killed in custody.
On 25 March 1999, a body of an informant was recovered from the water tank of Detective Branch headquarters in Minto road in Dhaka.
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